The Map Catalog
Title | The Map Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Makower |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780679742579 |
This unique sourcebook for map lovers is newly revised in a third edition that includes more maps than ever before. In addition to a profusion of road maps, aerial maps, geological maps, historical maps, weather maps, nautical maps, military maps, census maps, and astronomical maps, this third revised edition contains: -- the most current maps of Russia and Eastern Europe; -- a new section on the age of exploration; -- the most up-to-date information about map software; -- a completely new section on how to have a professional map made; -- the latest information about the new generation of maps based on the 1990 census. Whether you want maps of airports or zip codes, highways, hurricanes, or hidden treasure, The Map Catalog is the book for you.
Shawnee!
Title | Shawnee! PDF eBook |
Author | James Henri Howard |
Publisher | Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780821404171 |
A comprehensive account of Shawnee culture, based on fieldwork among the present-day Shawnee as well as historic accounts, photographs, and paintings. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Backpacker
Title | Backpacker PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1997-06 |
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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Road Trip USA
Title | Road Trip USA PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie Jensen |
Publisher | Avalon Travel Pub |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9781566911900 |
Offers detailed descriptions of drives through California and the Southwest, with a flexible format allowing one to switch routes during a journey, and including information on where to eat and sleep, the best local radio stations, hundreds of roadside attractions, and more.
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
Title | Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America PDF eBook |
Author | Damian Alan Pargas |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2020-09-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813065798 |
This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Using newspapers, advertisements, and new demographic data, contributors show how events like the Revolutionary War and westward expansion shaped the slave experience. Contributors investigate sites of formal freedom, where slavery was abolished and refugees were legally free, to determine the extent to which fugitive slaves experienced freedom in places like Canada while still being subject to racism. In sites of semiformal freedom, as in the northern United States, fugitives’ claims to freedom were precarious because state abolition laws conflicted with federal fugitive slave laws. Contributors show how local committees strategized to interfere with the work of slave catchers to protect refugees. Sites of informal freedom were created within the slaveholding South, where runaways who felt relocating to distant destinations was too risky formed maroon communities or attempted to blend in with free black populations. These individuals procured false documents or changed their names to avoid detection and pass as free. The essays discuss slaves’ motivations for choosing these destinations, the social networks that supported their plans, what it was like to settle in their new societies, and how slave flight impacted broader debates about slavery. This volume redraws the map of escape and emancipation during this period, emphasizing the importance of place in defining the meaning and extent of freedom. Contributors: Kyle Ainsworth | Mekala Audain | Gordon S. Barker | Sylviane A. Diouf | Roy E. Finkenbine | Graham Russell Gao Hodges | Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | Viola Franziska Müller | James David Nichols | Damian Alan Pargas | Matthew Pinsker A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Title | The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Parkman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Backpacker
Title | Backpacker PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2001-05 |
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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.